Fate/Zero: King Arthur is still a girl, fuck Japan.

Okay, so after getting on sort of a high for heroic spirits after playing Fate/Zero, I've been wanting to watch this. Partially because Fate/Zero is unlike the original Fate/Stay Night in that the protagonist is a stone cold killer with the ideal that of saving the lives of other people even if it means sacrificing a few. Fate/Zero is about Kiritsugu Emiya's fight in the War for the Holy Grail which 7 masters (Human mages) participate in. To participate you must not only be accepted by the Holy Grail but summon a servant, which is a heroic spirit from the past brought forth to fight for you. The servants are split into seven classes.

Every class is self-explanatory and every servant is put into that specific class based on their abilities but can also fit into the other classes too should they be summoned at another time (For instance, King Arthur could also be summoned as a Rider if the spot for Saber was already taken). These are easily the most interesting parts of the Fate series as it's always fun to watch these heroic spirits fight it out against each other with increasingly ridiculous weapons and the personalities are just great.

I've only watched the first episode so far, but it's almost an hour long and contains enough information for newcomers to be able to jump in without any problems on figuring stuff out... okay, there's one scene you might have trouble with but other than that it should be fine.

Saber was alright, but FSN's only good route was Unlimited Blade Works. Fate was dull as all hell until the last few days and Heaven's Feel only had a few good parts of it. I've only seen the first episode and I already prefer it to the anime and movie because ufotable has handled the first episode better than the first episode of the FSN anime or the background of UBW.

So that was pretty cool, but the fighting felt rather lackluster. Still, the Saber/Lancer fight was good, absolutely everything looks amazing (as expected from ufotable), and some of the voices (especially Archibald and Archer) are really, really good. Waver sucks, though.